Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

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

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

There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.