It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur

A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.