As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.

Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.