A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.