The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

A true friend is a sort of second self.

In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.