Ye tradeful Merchants, that, with weary toil, Do seek most precious things to make your gain,...
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.
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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Walked forth to ease my pain Along the shore of silver streaming Thames,...
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Fraud and prevarication are servile vices. They sometimes grow out of the necessities, always out of the habits, of slavish and degenerate spirits. It is an erect countenance, it is a firm adherence to principle, it is a power of resisting false shame and frivolous fear, that assert our good faith and honor, and assure to us the confidence of mankind.
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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
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Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.
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Then die that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee;
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A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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That through thy prowess and victorious arms, Thy country may be freed from foreign harms;...
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
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'I, on the other hand, have a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me.
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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