To some extent I liken slavery to death.

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

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.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Religion is not removed by removing superstition.