For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.

There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

Reason speaks and feeling bites

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life.