It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery.

For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.