Wit is the flower of the imagination.
An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.