Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

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

This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.