It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.

In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

Every man's friend is no man's friend.