Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him