The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company

It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.

It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.