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

Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.