The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.
It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.