The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

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.

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.