Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.

They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

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

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.