There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.

Towns were the nursery of freedom.

Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.

Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.