Courage is a kind of salvation.

Democracy ... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

The direction in which education starts a man, will determine his future life.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.

Mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be victims of it and not because they shrink from committing it.

The judge should not be young; he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.

Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.