There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.