Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.

Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.

The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.