We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.
Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.
Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.
The place of justice is a hallowed place.
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.