The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.