Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.