Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.

Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!

I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state; more so than riches or arms.

What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team.

Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength.