A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.
Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.
Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.