I Prefer Silent Prudence To Loquacious Folly.

Love Is The Attempt To Form A Friendship Inspired By Beauty.

Let War Be So Carried On That No Other Object May Seem To Be Sought But The Acquisition Of Peace. [lat., Bellum Autem Ita Suscipiatur, Ut Nihil Aliud, Nisi Pax, Quaesita Videatur.]

Enjoy The Blessing Of Strength While You Have It And Do Not Bewail It When It Is Gone, Unless, Forsooth, You Believe That Youth Must Lament The Loss Of Infancy, Or Early Manhood The Passing Of Youth. Life's Race-course Is Fixed; Nature Has Only A Single Path And That Path Is Run But Once, And To Each Stage Of Existence Has Been Allotted Its Own Appropriate Quality; So That The Weakness Of Childhood, The Impetuosity Of Youth, The Seriousness Of Middle Life, The Maturity Of Old Age.. Each Bears Some Of Nature's Fruit, Which Must Be Garnered In Its Own Season.

This Seems To Be Advanced As The Surest Basis For Our Belief In The Existence Of Gods, That There Is No Race So Uncivilized, No One In The World So Barbarous That His Mind Has No Inkling Of A Belief In Gods.

A Good Orator Is Pointed And Impassioned.