The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.