Flattery begets harmony; but only by means of the vile offence of slavishness or treachery. None are more readily taken with flattery than the proud, who wish to be first, but are not.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the power and the advantage of any private person. For the riches of any private person are wholly inadequate to me…

In so far as we are intelligent beings, we cannot desire anything save that which is necessary, nor yield absolute acquiescence to anything, save to that which…

It is before all things useful to men to associate their ways of life, to bind themselves together with such bonds as they think most fitted to gather them all…