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.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.

Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.