Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.