Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.

There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.

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

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.