There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.

There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.

Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.

The public seldom forgive twice.

Where pride begins, love ceases.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.