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.

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

A true friend is a sort of second self.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.