Dogs wait for us faithfully.

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.