Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

While there's life, there's hope.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.