A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.

I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.

Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.