The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.

In times of war, the law falls silent.

Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.