This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.

Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

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.

I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.