I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contr….

Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?.

The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet..

The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.].

What times! What manners!.

It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faith….

There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it..

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just..

Men of different tastes have different pursuits..

Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void..

When they remain silent, they cry out..

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child..

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that fo….

The foundation of justice is good faith..

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.].

To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business..

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body..

This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, ….

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself..

As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence..

I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting..