The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become.

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies