As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.