Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.

Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.

We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Let no one say that I have said nothing new; the arrangement of the subject is new.

How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.

If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.

There must be feelings of humility, not from nature, but from penitence, not to rest in them, but to go on to greatness.

All men naturally hate one another. They employ lust as far as possible in the service of the public weal. But this is only a pretence and a false image of love; for at bottom it is only hate.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the vain search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.