It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.
All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.
The beginnings of all things are small.
Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.
Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.
The great theatre for virtue is conscience.