Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

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

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

More laws, less justice.

Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.