The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

The post of honour is a private station.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.

What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?

That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.