He who suffers, remembers.

If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.