To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.

For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

The freedom of poetic license.

Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.