Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.
No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.
The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?
Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.