There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

He has no worse enemy than himself.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.