A community is like the ones who govern it.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.