What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.

The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.

There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.

The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.

Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear.

Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea.