"No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown."

"Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood."

"Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers."

"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."

"Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed."

"All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad."

"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well."

"My empty waterdish mocks me."

"Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms."

"The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another--no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy."

"Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards."

"Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man."