1. “Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.”
2. “We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.”
3. “The unruliest of men bend before the leader that has the sense to see and the will to do.”
4. “Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error and imperfection.”
5. “We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.”
6. “Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.”
7. “Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.”
8. “There is a deformity of baseness corresponding to the ugliness of the tyranny.”
9. “Man’s real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books.”
10. “Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice.”
11. “The sovereignty of one’s self over one’s self is called liberty.”
12. “Reverence for greatness dies out and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.”
13. “What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.”
14. “A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.”
15. “A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.”
