The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.