There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

The more laws, the less justice.

There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?