Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good.

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.