Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.