Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

It is curious that we pay statesmen for what they say, not for what they do; and judge of them from what they do, not from what they say. Hence they have one code of maxims for profession and another for practice, and make up their consciences as the Neapolitans do their beds, with one set of furniture for show and another for use.

The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.