It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.
To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
Freedom is participation in power.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.