The matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice ...

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

The tools that would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.