The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.
The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.
History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons
It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.