Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

In times of war, the law falls silent.

. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.