Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.

A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all the wealth being centred upon the few, the generality were poor and miserable. Honourable pursuits, for which there was no longer leisure, were neglected; the state was filled with sordid business, and with hatred and envy of the rich.

But being overborne with numbers, and nobody daring to face about, stretching out his hands to heaven, [Romulus] prayed to Jupiter to stop the army, and not to neglect but maintain the Roman cause, now in extreme danger. The prayer was no sooner made, than shame and respect for their king checked many; the fears of the fugitives changed suddenly into confidence.