Frugality includes all the other virtues.

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

We are born poets. we become orators.

The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.