As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.