All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.

Tomorrow will give us something to think about

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.