Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

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

Men learn while they teach.

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

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.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.