While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.