Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
Never excuse yourself.
Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.
Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.