Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.

Either is both, and Both is neither.

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.