In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.