Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.
Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.
Love is the wine of existence.
The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.