Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.

The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.

There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.