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

Judge not by the number, but by the weight.

These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.