We learn not for life but for the debating-room.

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.

The worse a person is the less he feels it.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.