What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.

No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.

It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.

Kindness is produced by kindness.

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

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.