Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything.

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions.

Consider once before you give, twice before you receive, and a thousand times before you ask.

When two good men contend about principles, both are always right.

Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.