I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.