 The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall. |
| If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. |
| The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless. |
| Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. |
| True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. |
| The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. |
| So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. |
| It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. |
| Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. |
| Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. |
| The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. |
| We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members. |
| Peace is liberty in tranquillity. |
| Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system. |
| In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. |
| Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. |
| Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. |
| 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. |
| I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. |
| Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. |
