Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.

Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.