My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
We must dare to think about “unthinkable things” because when things become “unthinkable” thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.