If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.

When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.

The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our future field.

We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.

Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.

The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.