To govern was to serve, not to rule.

An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Truth never perishes.

No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.

The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.

He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.