It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.

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

We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.