"We are free and open in our political life, and in our social relations we are not suspicious of one another."

"For what you hold is, to speak somewhat plainly, a tyranny; to take it perhaps was wrong, but to let it go is unsafe."

"We cultivate refinement without extravagance and knowledge without effeminacy."

"We do not copy our neighbors, but are an example to them."

"The man who avoids public life is not merely idle, but useless."