Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.