When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

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.

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.