Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.

Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.