Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

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

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

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.