Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.

The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.

There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself

There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.

The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.