Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.

Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.

Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

You talk one way, you live another.