Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.

It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

Freedom is participation in power.

We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

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

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.