The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.
Let each man have according to his deserts.
A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.
Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.
Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.
Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.
The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.
The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.
Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
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.
If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.
A true friend is a sort of second self.
He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.
Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.
Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]
Do nothing twice over.
Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?
Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]
Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.
An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
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