There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities. 


He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.