It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.