We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my country.
I walk on untrodden ground. there is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a supreme being.
Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
When we assumed the soldier, we did not lay aside the citizen.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
It is impossible to reason without arriving at a supreme being.
Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
It is impossible to govern the universe without the aid of a supreme being.
The constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
His bowels seemed to turn to water.
A tremor had gone through his bowels.
One cannot really be a catholic and grown up.
Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
The catholic and the communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.