The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

Nothing is so rash as fear; and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate, the evils from which they would fly.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.