Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.

There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "True happiness is ... to enjoy the present" "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.

Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.

To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.

Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.