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I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

What one has, one ought to use, and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to the second or even the third rank.

It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one."

All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie, and are connect as it were by some relationship.

The beginnings of all things are small.

In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

First things first, second things never.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god.

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

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered; nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?

Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

No sensible man ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.