Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

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

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.