The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.

- Samuel Parr

Sound policy is never at variance with substantial justice.

- Samuel Parr

Gratitude is a virtue which, according to the general apprehension of mankind, approaches more nearly than almost any other social virtue to justice.

- Samuel Parr

To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good.

- Samuel Parr

To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.

- Samuel Parr