Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.

A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?