He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.