A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.

No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.