“ The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. ”

“ To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. ”

“ Laws, like houses, lean on one another. ”

“ When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. ”

“ Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. ”

“ Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together. ”

“ Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. ”

“ The traveller has reached the end of the journey! ”

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

“ All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. ”