Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

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