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

The good of the people is the greatest law.

There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

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

More law, less justice.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.