What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

There is no moment without some duty.

Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; they are companions by night, and in travel, and in the country.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.