True nobility is exempt from fear.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.