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.
Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.