If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.

Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it!