Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.

This is the last of earth! I am content.

Duty is ours, results are God's.