
“A home without books is a body without soul.”
“If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure... Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.”
“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
“Let us not go over the old ground, let us rather prepare for what is to come.”
“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”
“Not to know the events which happened before one was born, that is to remain always a boy.”
“When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.”
“Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?”