If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.

Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.