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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.