Laws are silent in times of war.

A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

It is a great thing to know our vices.

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.

As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Strain every nerve to gain your point.

Let the punishment match the offense.

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.