Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations -- wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

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.

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.