There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

There is no moment without some duty.

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

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.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.