Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.

Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.