For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

When war is raging the laws are dumb.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

No sane man will dance.

No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.