“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”

“Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.”

“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”

“We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.”

“I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.”

“Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.”

“I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they grew rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves, and of one another.”