Laws can never be enforced unless fear supports them.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.