Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.