No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

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