Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.

How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?

Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

People do not die - they kill themselves.

It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.

In every good man a God doth dwell.