“We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.”

“The less men think, the more they talk.”

“Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.”

“In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.”

“Peace is a natural effect of trade.”

“Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.”

“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.”

“I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.”

“There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.”

“If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.”

“The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.”