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

With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did not even trust my own impressions, but it rests partly on what I saw myself, partly on what others saw for me, the accuracy of the report always being tried by the most severe and detailed tests possible. My conclusions have cost me some labour from the want of coincidence between accounts of the same occurrences by different eye-witnesses, arising sometimes from imperfect memory, sometimes from undue partiality for one side or the other.

You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

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.

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