There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.

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.

Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.