The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

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