The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.