Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.
Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.