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.

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.

Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

I am never less alone than when alone.