Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

We are born poets. we become orators.