"If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought."

"A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence."

"Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."

"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?"

"There is no greater sorrowThan to be mindful of the happy timeIn misery."

"Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire."

"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit."

"A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance."

"The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give."

"Our revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction and I am convinced that chance and intrigue have produced more heroes than genius and virtue."

"There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience."

"If they laid all the coeds from Yale end to end...I wouldn't be surprised."