Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.
An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.
A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.