To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

Brave men were living before Agamemnon. 

We are but dust and shadow.

He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine."

As money grows, care follows it and the hunger for more.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

If the world should break and fall on him, it would strike him fearless.

The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.