Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,<br> We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; <br> But were we burdened with like weight of pain,<br> As much or more we should ourselves complain.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.