The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

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

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.