To give and receive advice – the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation – is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.
No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.
Friends, though absent, are still present.
Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?
Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.
The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
Like associates with like.
Virtue is its own reward.
A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.
Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.
Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.
Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.
That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.
This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn’t show its age.
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
No one dances sober, unless he is insane.
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.