The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

One's sense of honor is the only thing that does not grow old, and the last pleasure, when one is worn out with age, is not, as the poet said, making money, but having the respect of one's fellow men.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.

When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.

Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.

They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.