Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.