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

Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

To live long, live slowly.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.