The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.