Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those...
Virtue is a habit of the mind consistent with nature and moderation and...
Nature abhors annihilation.
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
Of all nature's gifts to the human race what is sweeter to a man than his...
It is the nature of every person to error but only the fool perseveres in...
According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become...
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old...
The sinews of war are infinite money.
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both...
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal I gladly err nor do I...
Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse front its blows with brave hearts.
It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men but to defend them...
Time destroys the speculation of men but it confirms nature.
Adversity is a great teacher but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive is not worth the price we paid.
