The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.

Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

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.