Quote #2487
A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
Quote #24677
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
Quote #16028
The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities...
Quote #27164
My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them
Quote #254
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Quote #19905
The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to...
Quote #27362
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
Quote #25871
For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run...
Quote #19761
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affection and the...
Quote #31130
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.