He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

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

Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.