To Freemen, Threats Are Impotent.

Thus Nature Has No Love For Solitude, And Always Leans, As It Were, On Some Support; And The Sweetest Support Is Found In The Most Intimate Friendship.

The More Virtuous Any Man Is, The Less Easily Does He Suspect Others To Be Vicious.

In All Great Arts, As In Trees, It Is The Height That Charms Us; We Care Nothing For The Roots Or Trunks, Yet It Could Not Be Without The Aid Of These.

Favours Out Of Place I Regard As Positive Injuries.

There Is Wickedness In The Intention Of Wickedness, Even Though It Be Not Perpetrated In The Act.