Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
True nobility is exempt from fear.
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
To some extent I liken slavery to death.
That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?