Our liberality should not exceed our ability.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.

They condemn what they do not understand.

No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.