If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!

Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.