There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it!

There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.