A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none. We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place. If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil. We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.
Every country has the government it deserves.
Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain. False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice. There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections. It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.