Do nothing twice over.

He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.