God ever geometrizes.

Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.