True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.

A hug is worth a thousand words.

Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship.