"Advice is judged by results, not by intentions."

"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value."

"The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct."

"Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it."

"All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes."

"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity."

"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."

"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never."

"Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain."

"Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it."

"Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments."

"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."