It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

Time is the herald of truth.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

Hatred is settled anger.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.