Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.

It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.

Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.

He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.

In every good man a God doth dwell.

No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.

Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.