I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Friends, though absent, are still present.