For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.

Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.