There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.

It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.

Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.

A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.

Every journey has an end.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.