All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.

What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.

Dangers by being despised grow great.