Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

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.

What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.