Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

Falsehoods border on truths.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.