To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself, and enlarges the sphere of existence.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

Whether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or a more faithful public servant.

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.