This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.