We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

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.

It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire

Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.

For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.