He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

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

We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.