If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

There is no place more delightful than home.

More law, less justice.