For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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

A true friend is a sort of second self.