Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

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

Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.