In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.