We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.

A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.

The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.

The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.