Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.

Those who do not know history will forever remain children

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.