To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

To live long, live slowly.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.