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.

Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.

The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.