Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable...
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
It is not by muscle speed or physical dexterity that great things are...
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies...
If you pursue good with labor the labor passes away but the good remains if...
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
If you have a garden and a library you have everything you need.
What sweetness is left in life if you take away friendship? Robbing life of...
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them...
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by the doubling of our joy...
A friend is as it were a second self.
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases so far as he is...
Just as the soul fills the body so God fills the world. Just as the soul...
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
True nobility is exempt from fear.
The wise are instructed by reason average minds by experience the stupid by...
Frivolity is inborn conceit acquired by education.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue...
I add this that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to...
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
