Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.