The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

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

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.