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.

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.

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