Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.