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.

Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.