There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

As a rule it is circumstances that make men.