Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

There is not a moment without some duty.

I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.