Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.