Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public life, and conducting myself in that sphere like an honorable man, had always upheld the cause of right, and conscientiously set this end above all other things? Not by a very long way, gentlemen; neither would any other man.

Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.

Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.