What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."