Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

What is dignity without honesty?

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong

No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.