Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of ….

Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or….

Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though….

Nothing dries sooner than a tear..

Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation..

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable..

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure..

What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy..

It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It i….

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow..

The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace..

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow..

Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood..

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger..

A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant..

Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est.

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier..

The wise man never loses his temper..

The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion..

He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately..

Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense..