The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain.

Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Money is the seed of money.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.