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Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.
Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.
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.
Turn over a new leaf.
The grand instructor, time.
The wisdom of our ancestors.
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
To innovate is not to reform.
Responsibility prevents crimes.
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
That cardinal virtue, temperance.
Where mystery begins religion ends.
Custom reconciles us to everything.
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
A coward's courage is in his tongue.
The march of the human mind is slow.
Liberty, without wisdom, is license.
Public calamity is a mighty leveller.
Dangers by being despised grow great.
Evil succeeds when good men do nothing
One source of the sublime is infinity.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Contempt is not a thing to be despised.
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
Education is a nation's cheapest defence
War never leaves where it found a nation.
Those who attempt to level never equalize
Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.
Futurity is the great concern of mankind.
Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.
Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.
You can never plan the future by the past.
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
The ocean is an object of no small terror.
Good order is the foundation of all things.
Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
[Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
Man is by his constitution a religious animal.
All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.
Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.
We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.
