I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.

It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.