Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

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

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.