This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.