Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.