What we share with another ceases to be our own.
Time is the fairest and toughest judge.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.
It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
