A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.