But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.