Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.

An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.

No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.