There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money.

Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.

This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

Man is his own worst enemy.

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.