If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.