The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.
Thrift is of great revenue.
Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.
The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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.