Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

I would have every man write what he knows and no more.

The recognition of virtue is not less valuable from the lips of the man who hates it, since truth forces him to acknowledge it; and though he may be unwilling to take it into his inmost soul, he at least decks himself out in its trappings.

A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.

Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.