The safety of the people shall be the highest law..

Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation..

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth ….

Our thoughts are free..

"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for ….

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education..

All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is….

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion..

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind..

Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already..

An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost..

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation..

It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation..

We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man..

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion..

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that..

Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right..

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference..

There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart..

Man was born for two things--thinking and acting..