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

Turn over a new leaf.

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

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.

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.

Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

Sometimes people rehabilitate and reform their lives into being a great person when they make awful choices as children.

All great things are done for their own sake.

Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.

So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.