What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

What is dignity without honesty?

Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.