Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

Man must suffer to be wise.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Always the same thing.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.