"The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children."

"It is not possible to love and to be wise."

"The inquiry, knowledge, and belief of truth, is the sovereign good of human nature."

"Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."

"For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next ages."