The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.

Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.

He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.

Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.

Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.