Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend
Morality is the object of government.
Skepticism is slow suicide.
The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.
Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart.