Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.