Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.

Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy!

Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely.

In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.