Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.