Let reason govern desire.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

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.

Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.