Nature has inclined us to love men.

It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.