Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

Laws are silent in time of war.