Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.

Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.