There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

Laws are silent in time of war.