Hatred is inveterate anger.

Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.