"Ability without honor is useless...." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Kindness is produced by kindness.”

“That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.”

“Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.”

“There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.”

“No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.”

“People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.”

“No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.”

“We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living”

“A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.”