Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?
To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.