A man of courage is also full of faith.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.
Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.
The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.
Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it.
Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.