"The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children."

"The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain."

"It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt."

"The corruption of the best things is the worst."

"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world."