As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.

He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.

Faults and defects every work of man must have.

To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.