True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.

The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.

How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?