I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.

No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.

It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.

The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.

Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.

The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.