It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Life is short, but art lives forever.