We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become "unthinkable" thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

Justice delayed, is justice denied.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.