James Mackintosh Quotes

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The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

James Mackintosh
It is right to be content with what we have, but never with what we are.

James Mackintosh
A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

James Mackintosh
Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.

James Mackintosh
Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.

James Mackintosh
Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.

James Mackintosh
It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.

James Mackintosh
Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own.

James Mackintosh
The feminine graces of Madame de Sevigne's genius are exquisitely charming; but the philosophy and eloquence of Madame de Stael are above the distinction of sex.

James Mackintosh