Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

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.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

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