The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

The science of the laws is the slow growth of time and experience.

The Indian who fells the tree that he may gather the fruit, and the Arab who plunders the caravans of commerce are actuated by the same impulse of savage nature, and relinquish for momentary rapine the long and secure possession of the most important blessings.

There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.

In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.

It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen.