Religion is the pious worship of God.
Life is nothing without friendship.
The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.
The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.
Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.
All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.