The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.