You can never be wise unless you love reading.

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

It is our first duty to serve society.

There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.