Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.

Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy.

No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.

Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing.

You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.