Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.

Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.

The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.

This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.