Strict law is often great injustice.

In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.

The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

All things are full of God.

Let each man have according to his deserts.