The real friend is another self.

Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

A community is like the ones who govern it.

Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.