What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

A letter does not blush.

I hate all children of precocious talent.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.