The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they were rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves and of one another.

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

The first step to greatness is to be honest.