I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.