Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

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

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.