Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.

The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.

That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us.