Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuo…

'Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.'

Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new (Not such was his) is neither strong nor pure.

In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.