For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.
It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.
Let us not go over the old ground but rather prepare for what is to come.
The works of nature must all be accounted good.
Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another’s expense.
There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.
The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.
More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.
An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.
The wise man never loses his temper.
All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.
You may never be less alone than when you are alone.
The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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.