Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

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.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

The whole of virtue consists in its practice.