The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

Friends are proved by adversity.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.