He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

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

Ability without honor is useless.

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.