Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

This life is only a prelude to eternity.

It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.

Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate.

Life is short and art is long.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.