Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

Hope is the mother of faith.

Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.