Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.
Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.