"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them."

"A great kingdom is not to be made good by the multitude of people, but by the greatness of them that are in it."

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

"Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight."

"Certainly, wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity."