Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.
It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
We all are imbued with the love of praise.
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.