Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
From Edmund Burke
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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