History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

I am never less alone than when alone.

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.