I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

Let each man have according to his deserts.

They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

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.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.