People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.