The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

Genius is fostered by industry.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

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

The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.