War should neither be feared nor provoked.
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
Our civilization depends largely on paper.
The only certainty is uncertainty
As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.
A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.