For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate.

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

He who suffers, remembers.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

A home without books is a body without soul.