We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.