Life without the courage to die is slavery.

Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.

The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.

Life without literary studies is death.

The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

Speech is the index of the mind.