“All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.”

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Turn over a new leaf.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

A coward’s courage is in his tongue.

If you look for the dark, that is all you’ll ever see.

Sometimes, I like to be dark – other times, I like to be really light and ladylike.

I feel that we’re all lighthouses, and my job is to shine my light as brightly as I can to the darkness.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Sometimes, finding the light means you must past through the deepest darkness.

A good deed brightens a dark world.

The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.

Many things that become threatening in the dark, become welcoming when we shine a light on them.