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

Friends, though absent, are still present.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

The first bond of society is marriage.