Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

Common sense is not so common.

The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.