Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.
A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.
Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.