Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.