Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

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.

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.