Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.

To govern was to serve, not to rule.

You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.

Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.

We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

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