That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

Let each man have according to his deserts.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.