Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.