Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

Change is the only constant in life. Ones ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life.

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.

Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.