There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

No one has leave to sin.

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

Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.

To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.