Strain every nerve to gain your point.
While the sick man has life, there is hope.
If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.
A home without books is a body without soul.
War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.