A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

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

I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.

He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.