Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

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.

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.