It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

Strict law is often great injustice.