A home without books is a body without soul.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.

There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.