Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.

The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods.

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.