I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

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

Honor is the reward of virtue.

The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.