Justice renders to every one his due.

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.