We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.