The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy.

It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.

Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.