All great men are partially inspired.
This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.
Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.
What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.
What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?
Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.
Man was born for two things – thinking and acting.
A wise man does nothing by constraint.
All soils are not fertile.
Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
No man in his senses will dance.
Religion is not removed by removing superstition.
Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.
For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.
I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.
That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.
We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.
As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.
All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.