If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.

The more laws, the less justice.

He is rich who wishes no more than he has.