The real friend is another self.

I am never less alone than when alone.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful