As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

The freedom of poetic license.

Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.

A man has no enemy worse than himself.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.