The real friend is another self.

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

Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

The more laws, the less justice.

Judge not by the number, but by the weight.