"It is a profound truth that do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."

"Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages."

"I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property."

"A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance."

"To master the mind is to understand that the echo of our deeds ripples through eternity."

"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."

"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one."