The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.