“To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude ”

“A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay”

“A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences”

“Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies”

“The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.””

“There is no defense against criticism except obscurity”