A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.

The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.