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

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Probability is the very guide of life.

When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

In times of war, the law falls silent.