The works of nature must all be accounted good.

What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?

I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.