Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.