The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.