He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Little strokes fell great oaks.