To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: " Is this the condition that I feared?"

A hated government does not long survive.

Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it.

When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.