As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

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.

Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.