To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.

This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.

We pardon familiar vices.

It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.