To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.

To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good.

Gratitude is a virtue which, according to the general apprehension of mankind, approaches more nearly than almost any other social virtue to justice.

The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.

Sound policy is never at variance with substantial justice.

To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.