Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.

Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it.

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.

Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.