For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.