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

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Age and Aging

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Ambition

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

Books and Reading

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

Children

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Courage

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Curiosity

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

Eloquence

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

Fame

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Friends and Friendship

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

Glory

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Happiness

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

History and Historians

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

Hope

To the sick, while there is life there is hope.

Justice

The foundation of justice is good faith.

Liberty

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Masses

The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.

Mind

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Nations

The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

Pain

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Philosophers and Philosophy

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Pleasure

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Reason

Let reason govern desire.

Sorrow

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

Speakers and Speaking

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Thoughts and Thinking

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Value

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Youth

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.