Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.

The only training for the heroic is the mundane.

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.