"No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone."

"No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration."

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

"In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible."

"Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system."

"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity."

"We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings."

"It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment."

"Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak."

"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 might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal."

"Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty."

"In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred."

"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind."

"Before beginning, plan carefully."

"An unjust peace is better than a just war."

"Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom."

"What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?"

"A letter does not blush."

"Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself."

"A friend is, as it were, a second self."

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."

"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value."

"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."

"All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief."

"We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue."

"When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank."

"I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors."

"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

"The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed."

"Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error."

"Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable."

"He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing."

"Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved."

"Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason."

"It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much."

"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."

"Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law."

"Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes."

"Sweet is the memory of past troubles."

"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error."

"There are more men ennobled by study than by nature."

"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."

"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."

"Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator."

"As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind."

"Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything."

"The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure."

"Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow."

"Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world."