A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.

To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.