As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.