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.

It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.