Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

The wisest have the most authority.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.