Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

Let us not go over the old ground but rather prepare for what is to come.

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

There is not a moment without some duty.

A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.