A room without books is like a body without a soul.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
The best interpreter of the law is custom.
I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.
In times of war, the law falls s
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
A home without books is a body without soul.
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul...
To live is to think.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Hatred is settled anger.
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.