“ Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. ”
“ Beauty is the promise of happiness. ”
“ But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. ”
“ The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. ”
“ Education is the cheap defense of nations. ”
“ To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. ”
“ We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. ”
“ A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. ”
“ What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man. ”
“ Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. ”
“ Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. ”
“ All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. ”
“ It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. ”
“ It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. ”
“ 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. ”
“ Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. ”
“ Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. ”
“ Laws, like houses, lean on one another. ”
“ No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. ”
“ Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. ”