Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.