For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.