True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?