There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.