Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.