We are born poets. we become orators.

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

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

True nobility is exempt from fear.

While there's life, there's hope.