Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

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

Judge not by the number, but by the weight.

Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.