Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.

He is most powerful who governs himself.

Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.

The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.

On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.

He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!