Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are

It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.