A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.