People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it!

Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.