Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow