James Mackintosh Quotes & Sayings

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. — 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

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

The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor. — James Mackintosh

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions. — James Mackintosh

The frivolous work of polished idleness. — 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

Whatever is popular deserves attention. — 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

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

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

The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks. — James Mackintosh

It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are. — James Mackintosh