"The more laws, the less justice."

"The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends."

"The people's good is the highest law."

"Let your desires be ruled by reason. (Appetitus Rationi Pareat)"

"What a time! What a civilization!"

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

"If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one."

"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason."

"My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met."

"Now I understand why Henry VIII started his own church."

"A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success."

"Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle."