“The best interpreter of the law is custom.”

“The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.”

“Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.”

“Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”

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

“Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.”

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

“While there's life, there's hope.”

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

“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.”

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”

“The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.”

“Peace is liberty in tranquillity.”

“An unjust peace is better than a just war.”