It is better to receive than to do injury.

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

To freemen, threats are impotent.

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.