» How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
» Five enemies of peace inhabit with us -- avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
» Man has no greater enemy than himself.
» To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
» It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
» Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
» Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.