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!

To live long, live slowly.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

All things are full of God.

The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.