The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.

Thought makes everything fit for use.

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.

The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle