The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.