Virtue is presupposed in friendship.

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.