The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

There is nothing god cannot do.