In all things that you do, consider the end.

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear

Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.

If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.

Poets tell many lies.