A room without books is like a body without a soul.
No obligation to do the impossible is binding.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Empire and liberty.
What is permissible is not always honorable.
Nature abhors annihilation.
Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
In time of war the laws are silent.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
A home without books is a body without soul.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.