Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

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

There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.

The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.