Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

He who hath many friends hath none.

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.