Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

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.

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.