The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.