I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.