“[It was] better to set up a monarchy themselves than to suffer a sedition to continue that must certainly end in one.”

“When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.”

“Character is simply habit long continued.”

“To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days”

“It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.”

“To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.”

“Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.”