"If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it"
"Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world"
"It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much"
"It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal"
"It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own"
"It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error"
"The good of the people is the greatest law"
"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil"
"The false is nothing but an imitation of the true"
"Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom"
"Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent"
"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age"
"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is"
"Peace is liberty in tranquillity"
"Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live"
"Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide"
"Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth"
"Nature abhors annihilation"
"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability"
"Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due"
"Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act"
"Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?"
"No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration"
"No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone"
"Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything"
"Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so"
"Empire and liberty"
"Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable"
"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body"
