"The world, sir, is a great book, of which we have only read a few pages."

"The greatest of fools is he who thinks he is not one."

"To be a good man, one must be a good citizen."

"There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking a man's character for his reputation."

"The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself."