Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.