Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

Ability without honor is useless.

All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

Hatred is a settled anger.