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.

There is no place more delightful than home.

Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.