I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.

When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.

We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.

To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.

In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness.