A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.

States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.

Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.

Consult duty not events.