"Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing."

"Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly."

"A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age."

"The people's good is the highest law."

"Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient."

"There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment."

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

"Stupid is a boundless concept."

"In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."

"To govern is always to choose among disadvantages."

"Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not."

"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you."