A book is the only immortality. |
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading |
The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good. |
There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed |
We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution |