Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

Life is short, but art lives forever.