The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

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.