Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

All soils are not fertile.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.