Probability is the very guide of life.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

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

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.