It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

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.

Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.