If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
Great men, like nature, use simple language.
It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.