Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

A true friend is a sort of second self.

No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.