Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.
Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.
The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.
Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.