We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.

When war is raging the laws are dumb.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.