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

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

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