No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

He has no worse enemy than himself.

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.