Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.