Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.