“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.”

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.

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.

When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.

Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.

To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.

The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.

True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.

Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.

On the question of relating to our fellowman – our neighbor’s spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

Do not confuse the command to love with the disease to please.

Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.