Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.

Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.