Before beginning, prepare carefully.

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.

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.

While the sick man has life, there is hope.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.