Ability without honor is useless.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

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

It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.