Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Association with women is the basis of good manners.

You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it.