Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.

Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.