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.

I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.

Either is both, and Both is neither.

Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.

Had I a careful and pleasant companion that should show me my angry face in a glass, I should not at all take it ill; to behold man's self so unnaturally disguised and dishonored will conduce not a little to the impeachment of anger.

God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.

What can they suffer that do not fear to die?