If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.

Don't stumble over something behind you.

He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.

True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.

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