To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

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.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Judge not by the number, but by the weight.

There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.