The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.

Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.

The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.

Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.

Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.