There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.

Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.

Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations on a popular base, is in the checks and balances imposed on the public servants.

We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true; though happily for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned, are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating, if not excusing its crimes.

No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.

Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and as the agent in all that distinguishes the civilized man from the savage.

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.