You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain

Every journey has an end.

What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.

The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.

Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.