We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.

I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.