The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
Our thoughts are free.
To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.
If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.
Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.