“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways — I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.”

The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be.

The greatest good of a man is daily to converse about virtue.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

An unexamined life is not worth living.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.