Let your best be for your friend.

Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.