VIRTUAL DICTIONARY - FAMOUS QUOTES

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

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

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.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

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

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

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

Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.

To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.

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

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

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

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

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

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

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

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

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.

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