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

I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

To freemen, threats are impotent.

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.