Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.

Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.

Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.