Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.

Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.

All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.

The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.

He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.