It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.