I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

You can only work on yourself. Start there.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own

stick to truth and we shall succeed, may be slowly, but surely.

Useless to tell myself that a dreamand the memory of yesterday are the same thing

Where, oh, where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity's values in view?

The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated discipline will take care of itself.

Because I don't think it's true. I don't think corruption is endemic to the process in Annapolis at all. It's the exception, not the rule.

I'm not one of those people who are like always joking in person.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Do you realize what would happen if Moses were alive today? He'd go up to Mount Sinai, come back with the Ten Commandments, and spend the next eight years trying to get published.