Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

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

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.