No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

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

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"