Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.