The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

Nothing is ours except time.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.