No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.
The first bond of society is marriage.
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.