Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.

Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.