Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

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

The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.

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

Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.

We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.