Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.

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

But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?

As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.