Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

I am a Roman citizen.

A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong