All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.