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

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

The only training for the heroic is the mundane.

All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.