Laws are inoperative in war

No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.

Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

Do nothing twice over.

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.