The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

Freedom is participation in power.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

All great men are partially inspired.