Judge not by the number, but by the weight.

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

Strain every nerve to gain your point.

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.