Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.
Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.
Happiness is not the portion of man.
I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore