We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.

Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

Let us not go over the old ground but rather prepare for what is to come.

For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'