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.

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

The real friend is another self.

The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.