There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

Life is nothing without friendship.

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.