Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

Pardon is granted to necessity.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.