The first bond of society is marriage.

An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.