This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected.

It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.