Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second, more personal and important, from himself.
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.