There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

A man has no enemy worse than himself.

There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.