If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

War is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external of political society is in a hostile shape: and the only actions to which we have always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.