I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance.

What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.

The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.

Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death