To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.