Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.

Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.