For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

I am never less alone than when alone.

Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.