No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

The thought of going abroad makes my heart leap.

Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.

The press, watchful with more than the hundred eyes of Argus, strong with more than the hundred arms of Briareus, not only guards all the conquests of civilization, but leads the way to future triumphs.

War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man