History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Friends are proved by adversity.

If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.