Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

In times of war, the law falls silent.

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

There is not a moment without some duty.

This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

A home without books is a body without soul.