Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.