Public Private Quotes by Samuel Parr

Sound policy is never at variance with substantial 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

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

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

— Samuel Parr