The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.Collection: Men
It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.Collection: Design
Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.Collection: Compassion
As for the differences of opinion upon speculative questions, if we wait till they are reconciled, the action of human affairs must be suspended forever. But neither are we to look for perfection in any one man, nor for agreement among many.Collection: Men
I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart.Collection: Wisdom
There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.Collection: Political
Oppression is more easily endured than insult.Collection: Comeback
The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.Collection: Life
The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.Collection: Essence
Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.Collection: Integrity
How much easier is it to be generous than just.Collection: Generosity
Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.Collection: Honesty
It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.Collection: Coward
The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.Collection: Justice
It is a maxim received in life that, in general, we can determine more wisely for others than for ourselves. The reason of it is so dear in argument that it hardly wants the confirmation of experience.Collection: Life
The Liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.Collection: Religious