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.

Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.