The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.

He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.

Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves; solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time

Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.

The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.