Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.