Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'

It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.

An honest man is always a child.

When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior.

The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

Regard your good name as the richest jewel yoou can possibly be possessed of.