Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.