"No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown."

"Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood."

"A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it."

"Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers."

"Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed."

"All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad."

"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."

"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."

"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds."

"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken."

"Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved."

"There is no Them, there is only Us. Some of Us think this or some of Us think that, but we're all Us."