Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

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

The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.