"Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent."

"When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff."

"The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend."

"The sinews of war are infinite money."

"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."

"To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning."

"One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees."

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

"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body."

"What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?"

"Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion."

"Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom."

"Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act."

"Nature abhors annihilation."

"Ability without honor is useless."

"Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself."

"What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us."

"The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free."

"According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another."

"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."

"Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends."

"While there's life, there's hope."

"This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again."

"Honor is the reward of virtue."

"Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain."

"True nobility is exempt from fear."

"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."

"Laws are silent in time of war."

"The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow."

"Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live."

"In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body."

"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."

"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

"I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability."

"Peace is liberty in tranquillity."

"Hatred is settled anger."

"The more laws, the less justice."

"No one can give you better advice than yourself."

"Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law."

"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty."

"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."

"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn."

"Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due."

"A man of courage is also full of faith."

"The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct."

"The safety of the people shall be the highest law."

"The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others."

"No obligation to do the impossible is binding."

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."

"He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason."