If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have