No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.