What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

The worst time is always the present.

O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.

The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.