Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate.

The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

We love justice greatly, and just men but little.