I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.