Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

As you have sown so shall you reap.

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.