In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.

It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.

It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Strict law is often great injustice.