Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

Tomorrow will give us something to think about

No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

Thrift is a great revenue.

The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.