A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.

Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Before all, be real. Only the truth gives to the word the Orpheus' Lyre power.