Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.