The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.

It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.

There is no moment without some duty.

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