To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.