No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Actions • Fear • Mindfulness
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Cooperation • Government • Negotiation
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Achievements • Determination • Patience
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Sacrifice • Struggle • Unity
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Actions • Morality • Responsibility
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
Age • Humility • Teaching
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Freedom • Government • Laws
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Abuse • Leadership • Politics
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Freedom • Power • Success
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Knowledge • Learning • Reading
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Authority • Government • Injustice
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Liberty • Virtue • Wisdom
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Change • Laws • Nature
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
Economics • Education • Nation
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Human • Improvement • Philosophy
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Danger • Laws • Power
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Actions • Improvement • Motivational
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Beauty • Happiness • Promise
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Affection • Beauty • Distress