Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

In times of war, the law falls silent.

Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.