Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
What is permissible is not always honorable.
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Ability without honor is useless.
It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
Laws are silent in time of war.