"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Strict law is often great injustice.

How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!