A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.

It is necessary for a Senator to be thoroughly acquainted with the constitution; and this is a knowledge of the most extensive nature; a matter of science, of diligence, of reflection, without which no Senator can possibly be fit for his office.

In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.