What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.