"The proof of a well-trained mind is..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.”

“Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.”

“Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.”

“The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.”

“As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free.”

“My mind changes often ... People who have no mind can easily be steadfast and firm, but when a man is loaded down to the guards with it, as I am, every heavy sea of foreboding or inclination, maybe of indolence, shifts the cargo.”

“I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.”

“The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.”

“Honor is the reward of virtue.”