The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
Good order is the foundation of all things.
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
Whenever our neighbour’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
