Pardon is granted to necessity.

He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home