When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.
I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.
Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.