We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?

Stubbornness is not firmness.

There is no solitude in nature.