Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Hatred is inveterate anger.
Hatred is settled anger.
What is permissible is not always honorable.
Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
The sinews of war are infinite money.
Never injure a friend, even in jest.
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
