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

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

There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.

Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.

It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.

Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.