I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.

Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.