This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.

Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life; not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.

Death pays all debts.

The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.

Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.