To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.

The man who pardons easily courts injury.

Proxy religion involves too great a risk: you had better see to your soul's matters yourself, and leave them in no man's hands.

The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.

Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.

Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and happiness of the people.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.

I don't like to go to strange places.

All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.