Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.

No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.