Strict law is often great injustice.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.