To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

Never shall I recollect the occasion he gave me of displeasure, without feeling it renewed.

falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.

There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body!

But how cool, how quiet is true courage!

There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth

I love and honour [Paulus Aemilius, in Plutarch's Lives], for his fondness for his children, which instead of blushing at, he avows and glories in: and that at an age, when almost all the heros and great men thought that to make their children and family a secondary concern, was the first proof of their superiority and greatness of soul.