The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.