There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.

The best known evil is the most tolerable.

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.

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

Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.

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