Cicero: “If any of us have any advantage in personal character, intellect, or fortune, we should be ready to make our friends…”

So, then, it is truth that is, as it were, the stuff with which this virtue has to deal and on which it employs itself.

Still, I do not mean to find fault with the accumulation of property, provided it hurts nobody, but unjust acquisition of it is always to be avoided.

In the matter of a promise one must always consider the meaning and not the mere words.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a pre-eminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.