There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.

Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.