Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.