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

Nature abhors annihilation.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.