All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man?... We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.

Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.

The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.