The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

A friend is a second self.

So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.

Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely, others that if they are unequal in any respect they should be unequal in all. The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.