Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.
Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.