There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer..

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit..

The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment..

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malu….

Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication..

Tomorrow will give us something to think about.

The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.].

Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am the jester. The soul that has serve….

Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun..

It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the f….

Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.].

Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never gr….

Work makes a callus against grief..

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race..

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness..

The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary..

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my….

Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon..

There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior..

They condemn what they do not understand..

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches..