It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”

“He is richest who is content with the least, for contentment is the wealth of nature.”

“It is the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.