Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.

Never travel by sea when you can go by land.

This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, since it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.

Do not expect good from another's death.

A honest man is seldom a vagrant.

I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.