Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.
Whatever you do, do with all your might.
Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.
No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.
There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.
The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.