We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.

"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."