Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Society is a partnership of the dead, the living and the unborn.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected.