It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long

In nothing do men approach so nearly to the Gods, as in giving health to men

Never injure a friend, even in jest

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never endangered

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind