Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

Kill the king but spare the man.

To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together; and it is only in the last push that one or the other takes the lead.