Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than be ruined by too confident a security |
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. |
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. |
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. |
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. |
Calamity is man's true touchstone |
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. |
Custom reconciles us to everything |
Dangers by being despised grow great |
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety |
Education is the cheap defense of nations |
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. |
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body |
Falsehood is a perennial spring. |
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. |