Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

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.

I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.

He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.

But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.

The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.

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.