“ Education is the best provision for old age. ”

“ Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. ”

“ Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. ”

“ Change in all things is sweet. ”

“ He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. ”

“ Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. ”

“ In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. ”

“ For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all. ”

“ Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. ”

“ My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. ”