| Quotes |
Topic |
| Books | A room without books is like a body without a soul. |
| Brevity | Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. |
| Brevity | Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. |
| Credit | Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another. |
| Enemy | Man is his own worst enemy. |
| Faith | When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. |
| Fidelity | Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. |
| Freedom | Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered. |
| Gratitude | Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. |
| Grief | It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. |
| Guilt | The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity. |
| Hate | Hatred is settled anger. |
| History | The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves. |
| Inspirational | Virtue is its own reward. |
| Inspirational | Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. |
| Law | When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. |
| Leisure | He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. |
| Leisure | The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity. |
| Liberty | We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free. |
| Literature | A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. |
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