At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Wit is educated insolence.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

It's best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.