An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.
I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.
The beginnings of all things are small.
The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.
It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world’s opinion of himself.
The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.
The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.
The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.
Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.
Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.
For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.
Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.
Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.