It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.

My thoughts and I were of another world.