An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.