A mind always employed is always happy.
Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.
One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.