Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

Let your desires be ruled by reason.

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.