A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.

Ignorance is bold, and knowledge reserved.

Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.