History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

What is more agreeable than one's home?