Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.

If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read.

We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.

He who walks alone, waits for no-one.

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.

The world laughs in flowers.