We are born poets. we become orators.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow men of considerateness, not to wound their feelings.

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

Probability is the very guide of life.

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.