Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.
The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong
For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.
There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.
Life is short, but art lives forever.
If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.