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

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.

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.

I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don’t think you ever abandon any of them.

I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I’ve been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.

When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him in spite of your feelings, you worship him in the deepest way.

A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.

Not all homes are meant to be lived in. Some are meant to be abandoned. Some burnt.

We need to abandon our scale and adopt God’s because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.

I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.

As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we’ll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we’re all one but continue to try to win.