We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

To live long it is necessary to live slowly.

There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.