A good mind possesses a kingdom.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.

A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.

To govern was to serve, not to rule.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.