Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.