People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.

Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.

A scholar knows no boredom.

As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.