Peace is freedom in tranquility.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

The real friend is another self.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.