Truth never perishes.

Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself.

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.