We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.

Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.

Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not be doubted that his part contributes to the generation, and adds much to that which has been collected.

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.

He who is brave is free.

There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.

For greed, all nature is too little.