Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.