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.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

More law, less justice.

In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.