There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.

A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.

Delay in justice is injustice.