We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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