By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.

The inference to which we are brought is, that the causes of faction cannot be removed, and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects.

Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion.

There is no structural organization of society which can bring about the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth, since all systems can be perverted by the selfishness of man.

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which leads to a dark gulf.

He that is jealous is not in love.

Jealousy does not wait for reasons.

Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.

Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion.

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

There is not a single soul that jealousy looks good on. Nobody! It looks ugly on everybody and it makes us act ugly - it makes us act out of character.