The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non animum mutant': they see new meridians, but the same men, and with heads as empty as their pockets.

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.