Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, ….

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent..

Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge..

Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship..

If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right..

This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so b….

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die..

Philosophy is the true mother of science..

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing….

There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our….

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post..

Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment..

The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing..

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life..

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge.

When war is raging the laws are dumb..

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says..

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless..

Let your desires be ruled by reason..

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue..

Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.].