Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

Freedom is participation in power.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.