Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.